Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. The date of Independence Day looks back to the liberation of Minsk from the Nazis back in 1944. That, of course, brought Belarus back under ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. As about 62 percent of the population is Roman Catholic, Holy Week masses are often attended on Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. The Arabic term “Eid al-Fitr” means, literally, “feast of breaking the fast”. It is the first day following the disciplined time of fasting ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. After years of repression of all religions in Albania, during its dark decades of Communist rule, both Christianity and Islam have ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Easter week begins on Palm Sunday, which is when the Pope holds a special mass in Saint Peter’s Square in Vatican City. Even though this is ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Montenegro voted for independence from Serbia in an EU-organised referendum on 21 May 2006. On 3 June, the parliament of Montenegro ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. On Palm Sunday, when Holy Week arrives, Slovenians will gather green branches, flowers, and other springtime plant life to make natural ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. The origin of the holiday is the 4 May 1886 Haymarket Massacre during a labour protest in Chicago, USA. As the world industrialised in the ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Cyprus had been under British administration since 1878 after the island was handed over in an agreement with the Ottoman Empire for ...

This page contains a national calendar of all 2023 public holidays for Vatican City. These dates may be modified as official changes are announced, so please check back regularly for updates.

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Prayer Day was established by King Christian V in 1686 as a way to get all the different Christian denominations in Denmark to pray on the ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Prešeren Day was first made a Slovenian holiday in 1944, but it didn’t become an off-work day until 1991. Some also keep the birthday of ...